Display and vending apparatus



May 12, 1931. E. BRUNHOFF DISPLAY AND vmnnme APPARATUS Filed Sept. 5, 1928 m-I-m-m INVEN TOR.

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Patented May 12, 1931 e -t UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE EDWARD BRUNI-IOFF, OF WYOMING, OHIO DISPLAY AND VENDING APPARATUS Application filed September 5, 1928. Serial No. 303,990.

My invention relates to improvements in display and vending apparatus. One of its objects is to provide an improved display rack or support adapted to detachablysup- 5 port and display brooms. Another object is to provide an improved display support adapted to display brooms in compact form and at the same time to permit any one of the brooms to be detached and examined and replaced. Another object is to provide an improved compact and simple broom supporting rack. My invention also comprises certain details of form and arrangement and combination of components, all of which will be fully set forth in the description of the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of my improved apparatus.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the same taken on a line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a sectional detail taken on line 33 of Fig. 2. i

The accompanying drawings illustrate the preferred embodiment of my invention in i which represents a stationary base member to rest upon the floor. A tubular pedestal 16 is threaded at one end into the base member 15, and at its opposite end is rounded and fitted into a socket 17 in a rotatable supporting member 18, which is thereby rotatably mounted uponthe upper end of the pedestal 16, The pedestal 16 is preferably constructed in two sections united together by means of a coupling member 19 into which 5 each of the sections of the pedestal is threaded. The pedestal isthereby composed of two relatively short members in place of one relatively long member, and said short members are adapted to be packed and shipped with a base member 15 and a' supporting member 18 in a small and compact package or container. p

The supporting member 18 is provided with a plurality of radially projecting arms 20 from the outer ends of which are laterally extending racks 22 and 23 in pairs with an intervening space 24 adapted to receive the handles 25 of a series of brooms, the heads 26 of which extend above the racks 22 and 23 Q and transversely thereof as that the shoul ders 27 of the broom heads rest in notches 28 formed in pairs in the upper edges of the racks 22 andi28. As will be noted in Fig. 1, a considerable number of brooms are adapted to be supported in compact arrangement close to the pedestal, and so as to occupy relatively small floorspace. The supporting member and brooms carried thereby are adapted to be rotated to bring any broom within reach, and any one of the brooms is adapted to be detached and examined without disturbing the other-brooms. It will also be noted, upon consideration of Figs. 1 and 2,

that'various view points of articles displayed may be had, simultaneously, by virtue of the angular relation of one set of racks 22 23 with respect to the next, adjacent set of racks 22-23. Thus, articles upon one set of racks are displayed in side elevation, while the next adjacent racks 22-23 will display the articles in front elevation, thereby permitting minute examination of articles displayed. The entire structure is simple and relatively inexpensive, strong and reliable, and Very compact both in use and in shipment.

' The apparatus herein shown and described is capable of considerable. modification within the scope of the claims without departing from the spirit of my invention.

What I claim is:

A display and vending apparatus for brooms or the like comprising a base, a pedestal therefor, a rotatable head mounted upon said base, said head having a plurality of angularly extended arms, each of said arms havmg a pair of spaced racks extended in a horizontal plane at right angles to each respective;

'arm and each pair of said racks having aligned notches along their upper edges for reception of a broom head when suspended therefrom. I

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my 7 signature. I

. EDWARD BRUNHOFF. 

